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A container ship on its way from South Korea to Denmark is using methanol fuel that reduces emissions - although future fuels may be greener

An analysis of buffalo mozzarella from two Italian dairies has revealed which bacteria define this beloved cheese.

Researchers have mapped how clusters of nerve cells in the brain connect to regulate wakefulness, which could open doors to new treatments for people in comas

The difficulty of quantum error correction has been a major stumbling block for quantum computers, but IBM researchers have developed a way to make it far more efficient

This Jupiter-size object is 80 times denser than a planet and hotter than the sun.

Although usually solitary animals, two juvenile great whites, nicknamed Simon and Jekyll, have been tracked traveling more than 4,000 miles together along the U.S. east coast.

Blue light-blocking glasses may not have the benefits they're purported to have, a review of the available evidence suggests.

Scientists were able to visualize the upper 1,000 feet of the moon's surface for the first time. Their results reveal billions of years of previously hidden lunar history.

Because multiple factors can provoke acne, it's difficult to tease apart sugar's role.

The puzzle of how supermassive black holes grew so large just after the Big Bang could soon be solved.

Researchers have discovered a pattern where diamonds spew from deep beneath Earth's surface in huge, explosive volcanic eruptions.

In a recent Science paper, researchers led by JILA and NIST Fellow Jun Ye, along with collaborators JILA and NIST Fellow David Nesbitt, scientists from the University of Nevada, Reno, and Harvard University, observed nov...

The discovery of an ancient tapir's skeletal remains near an emperor's tomb indicates that these animals once roamed China.

The footage from a camera trap in Yasuní Biosphere Reserve in eastern Ecuador appears to be the first time a fight between a sloth and an ocelot has been caught on film.

Elusive eels may use ultra-black pigmentation alongside bioluminescence to pounce upon and engulf unwitting prey.

The bizarre Antarctic feather star was once believed to be one species. Now, scientists have figured out that it's actually eight.

All right people, let's do this one more time. If you've been following longevity research, you already know the story: young blood, either directly infused or injected into old mice, restores multiple organ functions to...

If a person says they believe an objectively false statement, AIs tend to agree with them - and the problem seems to get worse as models get bigger

Researchers from Hefei Institutes of Physical Science (HFIPS), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), have proposed a laser-assisted layer-by-layer covalent growth method to prepare highly crystalline all-graphene macrostruc...

An African bird called the greater honeyguide is said to lead honey badgers to beehives. Despite decades of reports, including faked footage, hard evidence has been tough to come by - but it's more than just a myth

For the first time, researchers were able to transmit, or "tunnel," sound waves across extremely small distances between two crystals in a vacuum.

Thanks to the way human eyes work, a system that makes your phone screen blurry can prevent people reading it from a distance while still remaining legible up close